July 6, 2007
Extra, Extra
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A train derailed on Otto Rd. in Queens, a stabbing at Rockaway Blvd. and Broadway in Brooklyn, and a sexual assault at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn.
- Visitors to the New York-New York hotel-casino in Las Vegas got an extra dose of big city verisimilitude last night, when shots rang out in the casino's mezzanine. Three people were struck, but none were seriously injured before the gunman was tackled.
- 20 newspapers around the country received letters postmarked from Queens and the Bronx that threatened investment firm Goldman Sachs. "Hundreds will die. We are inside. You cannot stop us."
- State Senator Marty Golden is proposing extending the Shore Parkway bike path over the Verrazano Bridge to Staten Island. Currently, Brooklyn riders who'd like to pedal around Staten Island have to cross the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan and then take the Staten Island Ferry.
- AM New York lists a variety of businesses around New York that are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including gyms, restaurants, spas, and the 5th Ave. Apple store.
- The New York Times reports on either one of the first, or the first Mr. Softee truck drivers ticketed under a new anti-noise ordinance for playing his jingle while parked at a curbside in Fort Totten, Queens.
- A six-month-old golden retriever puppy woke its sleeping owner by barking, alerting the man that his home was on fire after it got struck by lightning Thursday night in Garrison, a small town north of the city. The puppy named Ranger died in the fire after becoming lost in the smoke and flames, but he wound up saving the life of Richard Shafran, who escaped the burning home in time.
- A man is suing New York City after he was wrongfully imprisoned for 22 years after being convicted of rape. Alan Newton repeatedly asked for a review of DNA evidence from his alleged victim's rape kit, but was incorrectly told that the evidence had been lost, after the police conducted only a quick and cursory search for the exonerating items.
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A bike and pedestrian path over the Verrazano is long overdue. They've been trying to get the MTA to do it for what, 13 years now? Of course, the stupid MTA would ruin it by surrounding it with chain link fence anyway.
Verisimilitude? Give me a break!
No word on the craziness that went down on 1st avenue between 1st and 2nd streets?
what craziness?
poor ranger, love you buddy
I have a cheaper alternative to the V-N bike path.
Put bike racks on all the city's buses. It would probably be much cheaper, since they are only a couple hundred dollars per rack.
Toby, you're an idiot. I'm not going to ride over to 92nd and Ft. Hamilton Pkwy and try to crowd into an S53. If the MTA opens a pedestrian path over the bridge, that will be a great thing for people living in the Southwest Brooklyn area.
I assume that two separated bike/pedestrian paths would be created. What happens when two vehicular lanes are taken out for these new paths ? Probably more congestion for people driving to/from work or NJ.
Staten Island should detatch itself from NYC.
Staten Island sure is in the News a lot lately,
the fireworks wilding, the miss NJ and this.
Lucky that Garrison isn't inside of city limits, or erstwhile hero Ranger might *also* have been ticketed under the anti-noise ordinance implemented by Hizzoner, Mike "I May Govern a City, but Have No Idea How One Works" Bloomberg.